Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Friday, 1 October, 2021

  GUARDIAN Britney Spears’s Father Suspended From Her Conservatorship CBN affirms commitment to sports development as SEC wins AFIFC Nigeria at 61: Don’t despair over current challenges, Buhari tells Nigerians Prison Fellowship decries 10m out-of-school children in Nigeria Nigerian troops neutralise 85 terrorists Tension in South East as nation marks independence anniversary Secondus, Oyinlola, Jegede […]

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Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Wednesday, 2 December 2020

VANGUARD US attorney general: No evidence of serious voter fraud in election INEC: Yakubu gets Senate’s nod for another tenure Borno Massacre: Sack service chiefs now — SENATE No project, no re-election, Wike tells serving Rivers LGA chairs 2023: Zoning must be respected, Amaechi, others back Fashola Umahi’s defection to APC has no value — […]

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Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Friday, 9 October 2020

PUNCH US election: Trump launches rare attack on loyal aides Pompeo, Barr Sanwo-Olu urges residents to obey COVID-19 guidelines Health workers should be celebrated, says Lesi Experts call for waste reduction in industrial processes COVID-19 disrupted fight against protein deficiency, experts lament Mental health problem not spiritual attack, says psychiatrist Police, soldiers in show of […]

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Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Thursday, 8 October 2020

TRIBUNE: Race to become WTO DG now between Okonjo-Iweala, South Korean Ondo 2020: Akeredolu is a good brand to market ‘ Buhari Four men arrested with human head they were paid N2m to exhume for ritual #ENDSARS: Protesters oppose reform, call for scrapping of SARS Okowa signs violence against persons, local content bills World Post […]

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2015 Election: How Goodluck Jonathan Shocked his Supporters – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  “When I entered the Villa, the president was in one of the living rooms with the Vice President, some advisers, and a group of politicians who were arguing passionately about the conduct of the elections and irregularities of which they said they had evidence, such as videos of underage voting in certain parts of […]

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Okonjo-Iweala gives reasons for Nigeria’s economic recession

I still find it funny that most people don’t know why Nigeria economy went into recession, they love the incompetent lies of Lai Mohammed about the past government ruining everything. It’s also myopic to think that if Jonathan were to still be in power, we would be worse off. The truth about Nigeria’s recession is […]

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How Nigeria can come out of recession – Okonjo-Iweala

The immediate past Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said on Monday that having a handle on Nigeria’s spiralling inflation, foreign exchange problem, fiscal deficit and debts control were key to resolving the country’s current economic crisis. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke on Aljazeera TV programme, The Stream, said focusing on the basic issues of macroeconomic stability was […]

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Institutionalising savings by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Last week, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) urged President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the sharing of the $2.259bn in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) among the three tiers of government in order to improve the liquidity position of the states. The governors, during a meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa, hinged their call […]

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SAVING FOR RAINY DAY: SOLUDO TACKLES OKONJO-IWEALA

Ex-Governor of Central Bank, Dr. Charles Chukwuma Soludo has criticized Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for blaming others for not saving for the rainy day asking, “did the governors also stop the Federal Government from saving part of its share”. Below is Dr. Soludo’s statememt “… I hereby challenge your attempt to blame others for not saving for the […]

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Okonjo-Iweala: I said governors, NOT Jonathan, lacked the political will to save

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, says her statement blaming the lack of political will to save funds under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan has been taken out of context. Speaking on the Chilean saving example at the George Washington University on Thursday, the former minister had said “zero political will to save […]

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